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Tag: Nuclear Option

Senate GOP Goes Nuclear

Story of the Week / April 6th, 2017 / By John Gable, AllSides Co-founder

After the filibuster from the Senate Democrats began to protest the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, Mitch McConnell invoked the "nuclear option". The nuclear option, which is simply a rules change, was used because Republicans were five votes shy of being able to end the...
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